PARIS IS BORED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 18

PARIS IS BORED

FASHIONS WHICH TIRE

The well-dressed Parisian' woman subscribes to the dictum that when all the world accepts a certain style—then is the time to drop it, states an exchange! Paris, for instance, is tired of big puffed sleeves. The weariness reflects itself in even th« cheaper shops, which have followed the big establishments in cutting sleeves raglan style or simply gathered in at the shoulders.

Paris Is very tired, too, of the flat crowns and the big square dip over the nose which characterises our brims. She is also tired of flat under-arm hand bags. So are we. But whereas we have to go to some expensive shop to get away from the envelope and miniature Gladstone-bag shapes. Paris is providing at the moment quite cheap little panama-straw bags, the shape of the old-fash'ioiied container for reels of cotton, gathered, at the' neck by loops of coloured cord. 'If the envelope shape is shown, the bags are big, and made not of leather, but of flat-beads like tiddly-winks overlapping each other.

Paris is not exactly tired .pf checks and plaids—she has merely been attached to them for so long that she does not feature them in her windows as they are featured in other cities this season.

Paris is never, never tired of black and white—black with a lot of white for summer.. The pale pastel shades, the soft Gloucester blues,. and "dirty" pinks we love, have ceased to Interest Paris. And it is safe to predict that the stronger, If still mixed, tones seen just now in the Rue de la Paix—the mustard yellows, the strong bluegreens, and Indian reds—will be echoed in other parts of the world later on.